Some people were managing to profit by the situation. The Florencia family had led in the opening up and settling of Apalache Province and were the ones who had started trade from there to Havana. Descended from a Portuguese pilot who came to Florida in 1591, for three generations they supplied most of Apalache’s deputy governors and many of its priests, treating the province as a private fief. A look at the names of provincial circuit judges and inspectors (visitadores) shows that these ingenious Floridians even cornered the market on investigating themselves. [Note 60: Cedula to Gov. Ybarra 9/23/1603; Fr. Claudio de Florencia et. Al. 5/7/1707; Parish Register Baptisms 9/10/1597.] (Bushnell KC)